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"Turns out I don’t need this book right now after all; I finally found a-Shell’s documentation (and it uses dash, not bash!). So perhaps I’ll read this at some point, but I’m done for now." — Nov 06, 2023 06:02AM
"Turns out I don’t need this book right now after all; I finally found a-Shell’s documentation (and it uses dash, not bash!). So perhaps I’ll read this at some point, but I’m done for now." — Nov 06, 2023 06:02AM
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― De Profundis
― De Profundis
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
― I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
“People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
― V for Vendetta
― V for Vendetta
“What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!”
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